The journal
Strategy teardowns, psychology, and uncomfortable truths about retail trading. Written by the founder. No affiliates, no signal groups, no filler.
14 entries
Trading education is taught on stylised diagrams. The candles wick the way the diagram needs them to. The structure is clean. The market does not look like that. Here's why every drill on TradeInTune renders on real OHLC, and the gap that closes when the practice matches the live chart.
Why $300/month signal services and lifetime Discord memberships are an extractive business model, and what the alternative looks like when you build the thing with a verified live account instead of screenshots.
Pro-trend continuation at external protected structure. The highest-probability entry in the system and the one most new traders fumble because they confuse it with NC+S.
You don't have a strategy problem. You have a boredom problem. A personal essay on the single behavioural tweak that moved my win rate more than any new indicator ever did.
A short, illustrated guide to reading the Dollar Index as an external factor: when it aligns with your AUDUSD bias, when it fights it, and why mixed signals mean no trade.
An honest postmortem on trying to trade the core system without divergence as a filter. Spoiler: most of my losing trades had one thing in common I had been ignoring.
Inside the scheduling algorithm that decides which setup you're quizzed on tomorrow, and why showing you the same scenario twice on the same day is the worst thing a trading educator can do.
A breakdown of the trade I took at 0.6610 because I was scared of missing the move. It lost. Here's why watching the screen makes you worse, and the exact rule that saved my quarter.
Eight reds in a row. Then six. Then nine. What I actually did during each drawdown, what I wish I'd done, and the journal entries that saved the account both times I thought about quitting.
The number on the account flashes red and suddenly your strategy is garbage. One behavioural tweak (cover the equity, check it at end of day) and everything about your decision quality changes.
Liquidity, spread, and participation all peak in a four-hour window. Everything outside it is noise with a wider spread. The session analysis behind the rule I apply to every setup.
Non-farm payrolls is the loudest news event in forex, and almost every retail trader who takes it walks away worse off. The exact mechanics of why the print is a casino, and why skipping it is a system-level edge.
FOMC, RBA, ECB: not all rate holds are equal. A visual walkthrough of how a 'dovish hold' reprices AUDUSD in the five minutes after the statement, and how I structure trades around the calendar.